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N.C. acknowledges the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) for supporting the conception and completion of this article. D.B. acknowledges the Economic and Social Research Council (awards RES 070-27-0035 and RES 000-27-0174) for supporting research generative of some ideas contained in this article. Finally, the authors thank M. Hulme for his assistance.

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1. Department of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong, 2522, New South Wales, Australia
   Noel Castree
2. Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, M139PL, UK
   Noel Castree
3. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK
   William M. Adams
4. School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Queens University, Belfast, BT7 1PB, Northern Ireland
   John Barry
5. Institute of Policy Development and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
   Daniel Brockington
6. Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, 2518 AX, The Netherlands
   Bram Büscher
7. Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Edifici Z, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
   Esteve Corbera
8. Department of Geography, King's College, University of London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
   David Demeritt
9. Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, London, WC1H 0XG, UK
   Rosaleen Duffy
10. Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, Vienna, 1010, Austria
    Ulrike Felt
11. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, H3G 1M, Quebec, Canada
    Katja Neves
12. Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9SN, UK
    Peter Newell
13. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Piazza Europa 1-34127, Trieste, Italy
    Luigi Pellizzoni
14. School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Monash, 3800, Victoria, Australia
    Kate Rigby
15. Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, Wisconsin, USA
    Paul Robbins
16. Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 0200, Australia
    Libby Robin
17. Department of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, New South Wales, Australia
    Deborah Bird Rose
18. Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, New York, 10012-2339, New York, USA
    Andrew Ross
19. Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, New South Wales, Australia
    David Schlosberg
20. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-100 44, Sweden
    Sverker Sörlin
21. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 08540, New Jersey, USA
    Sverker Sörlin
22. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, 10027, New York, USA
    Paige West
23. Department of Geography, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
    Mark Whitehead
24. Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, LA1 4YN, Lancaster, UK
    Brian Wynne

Authors

1. Noel Castree
2. William M. Adams
3. John Barry
4. Daniel Brockington
5. Bram Büscher
6. Esteve Corbera
7. David Demeritt
8. Rosaleen Duffy
9. Ulrike Felt
10. Katja Neves
11. Peter Newell
12. Luigi Pellizzoni
13. Kate Rigby
14. Paul Robbins
15. Libby Robin
16. Deborah Bird Rose
17. Andrew Ross
18. David Schlosberg
19. Sverker Sörlin
20. Paige West
21. Mark Whitehead
22. Brian Wynne

Contributions

N.C. wrote the first and second drafts of this article, with detailed editorial assistance from W.M.A., D.B., D.D., L.R. and D.S. On both occasions all the other authors contributed substantive insights and made numerous suggestions for improvement that were incorporated into the final version.

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Correspondence toNoel Castree.

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Castree, N., Adams, W., Barry, J. et al. Changing the intellectual climate.Nature Clim Change 4, 763–768 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2339

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• Received: 09 April 2014
• Accepted: 15 July 2014
• Published: 27 August 2014
• Issue date: September 2014
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2339